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Is this how they mask clouds on images ?!

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I can swear the guy on series 'world' said they have technology to detect clouds that got captured with the image and replace that part. Is this what he meant ? Comment yourself what do you think... p.png?fv_content=true&size_mode=5

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If you meant to post a screen shot, it didn't work...

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5 minutes ago, b1bmsgt said:

If you meant to post a screen shot, it didn't work...

Oppss thank you for the headsup ! Still experimenting  with Dropbox. Its funny because i see the photo in the post. 

How about this link ? 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbz8vh39fqv4jsj/clouds mask.png?dl=0

Edited by roi1862

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Works good!

Haven't seen one of them in the game yet. Where is this one?

 

Russ

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38 minutes ago, roi1862 said:

I can swear the guy on series 'world' said they have technology to detect clouds that got captured with the image and replace that part. Is this what he meant ? Comment yourself what do you think... p.png?fv_content=true&size_mode=5

Probably, although the notion of them referring to it as 'having technology' as though it is some super-secret NASA computer system they have, is hilarious. What they are talking about, is Batch Action processing in Photoshop:

To do that, you'd  open up one image texture with a cloud on it Photoshop, then you'd start recording an Action in Photoshop (an Action in Photoshop is a 'macro', sequence of key presses, menu selections etc, which can all be saved as a 'one click' command). For this kind of task, you would need an Action which uses Select Via Color Range, to make a limited selection of white areas on the image, then you would use Color Replacement, to replace these with a good average colour you had pulled from the background with the eye dropper tool, then you'd have your Action save the file and close it. Easy.

Having recorded such an Action, you'd then use it to do a Batch Action process on all your other images, which is basically where you point your Action at a folder full of images and set it off going so it plows through them all one after the next, then you go for lunch, and when you get back, it's done automatically, instead of you having to have opened every image and done it manually.

Although the average Photoshop user probably does not know you can do this kind of thing easily in Photoshop, it's not exactly rocket science, but it is a big time saver. It has some limitations, but this is almost certainly what they were talking about when they said they 'had technology' which can do that.

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41 minutes ago, b1bmsgt said:

Works good!

Haven't seen one of them in the game yet. Where is this one?

 

Russ

Thats in Czech Republic. Next to a town called Turnov. Sorry i left the sim so cant give exact coordinates.

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8 hours ago, roi1862 said:

I can swear the guy on series 'world' said they have technology to detect clouds that got captured with the image and replace that part. Is this what he meant ? Comment yourself what do you think...

This looks like a baked-in cloud to me. Normally they‘re replaced by generic textures, at least the bigger clouds. 

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